Word: hiccupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciate the frustrations people have," Foye said. Working with computers is "a hairy thing. When they hiccup they destroy everything," he added...
...picketed the bank and sent staff member Janet Selcer to Washington to testify before the Senate Banking Committee in hearings on affirmative action in August, 1976. In the end, the committee agreed with Sen. William Proxmire (D.-Wisc.): "The Treasury program is about as effective as a butterfly's hiccup in a typhoon...
Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...Latin student begins wistfully with "In the world of mules/ There are no rules." Without pause or hiccup he sprints through "Mundus mulorum/ Non est regularum." Triumph! Wistful no longer, the poseur sweeps...
...Tall") Jones, a 6-ft. 9-in., 268-lb. defensive tackle, is a likely first-round draft choice for the pros. "Jones will go hard at you every play," Merritt says, "like he's killing snakes." Wide Receiver John Holland, according to the coach, is "quick as a hiccup...